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...number of unemployed newsmen in New York City has been estimated as high as 5,000, about two-thirds of whom are employable. This week witnessed the first overt effort of the jobless to help themselves as a group, with the publication of a weekly tabloid named Newsdom. It is an eight-page, five-column sheet devoted largely to gossip of newspaper offices in the New York metropolitan area, to be sold among working newspapermen, admen & pressmen...
Happy though Republicans were, they did not forget that next year holds their fate. The best they could hope for was that the moratorium would do some visible good and do it quickly. With the Depression definitely on the mend by July 1, 1932, the party could point with overt pride to the Hoover Holiday. But the Depression, despite the moratorium, might continue all year long, leaving the voters in 1932 in a disappointed, vindictive frame of mind. In that case G. O. Politicians knew that Democratic charges of "Hoover bungling" would be louder than ever...
...France's candidacy was chiefly important because it was the first overt act by a regular to deprive President Hoover of renomination. In a long message ad dressed "to my fellow Americans," Candidate France, who lives the life of a country squire on his Cecil County farm, declared Wet, flayed President Hoover for his lack of "candor and courage" on the Prohibition issue, denounced the Farm Board's activities, excoriated "rancid radicalism." As a physician (he was graduated from Baltimore's College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1903) he diagnosed the aftermath of the War: "the ligaments of international association torn...
...come to this country to write conduce to a whole-hearted reliance on the sincerity of the author. There are more ways than one of undermining sales-resistance. But Americans, like all true bibliophiles, should read between the lines. There would probably be seen there a crudely overt attempt by the trimmer of the Green Hat to insure a market for his latest millinery creations among Romantic Ladies...
Prisons. Foresighted persons suppose that criminals will soon learn to use airplanes as an aid to prison breaks. Unless actually caught in an overt criminal act, a pilot would be liable only for violation of the Federal regulations against low flying (minimum, 1,000 ft. over cities, or towns or congested areas; 500 ft. elsewhere) and the dropping of objects from aircraft (maximum penalty: $500 fine and revocation of license). Last week the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce considered the problem "unofficially" presented to it by a recent conference of prison wardens at Columbus, Ohio. Possible solution: creation...